PhD opportunities in the UK

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Written by Michelle Hards   
A large range of PhD studentships have become available for statisticians and epidemiologists within the department of Primary Care and Population Health at University College London (UCL).

For more information visit the main vacancy page and the list of adverts.
Last Updated on Friday, 14 May 2010 16:03
 

How to present results from meta-analyses

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Have you performed a meta-analysis and are wondering how to present the results? A helpful article has just been published in Research Synthesis Methods, entitled ‘graphical displays for meta-analysis: an overview with suggestions for practice’.
Last Updated on Friday, 30 April 2010 15:27
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Risk-benefit assessment hits the headlines

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Hopefully the latest media story surrounding breast cancer screening is raising public awareness of the risk-benefit considerations which healthcare professionals and government advisors are constantly having to battle with.
Last Updated on Friday, 02 April 2010 00:07
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New source of pharma data?

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Written by Michelle Hards   

Vitality GlowCaps sounds like a fluffy vitamin supplement but no!

GlowCaps ia a sophisticated medication compliance tracking device incorporated into a medications container. If that's not cool enough, the monitoring results in a continuous data collection from a growing number of users. It's not clear yet whether the compliance data can be incorporated into outcome data in electronic health records, but if it could be, the implications for the future of medical statistics are huge! And who owns the data, I wonder?

See more about it on the company's video format annual report for 2009.
 

Launch of Health Analytics Solution Center in Dallas

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IBM recently announced the launch of a Health Analytics Solution Center in Dallas, Texas. The aim for the Center is to address the demand for advanced analytics in the healthcare industry. Will it also mean more jobs for statisticians?
Last Updated on Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:22
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